OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes

Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes by aluhut on Thursday September 10, 2015 @02:27PM (#10199700)

Can someone elaborate on the use of eye trackers in dark rooms (rooms lightened by dimmed lights or only the monitor itself)? Does it work?

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Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes by richman777 on Thursday September 10, 2015 @02:38PM (#10199762)

My mom has ALS and has an eye tracker. The camera is infrared and shows up based on any light in the room.

From looking at the tracking software it seems to calculate contrast between the retina and the surrounding eye to track what it is looking at.

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Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes by aluhut on Friday September 11, 2015 @12:08AM (#10201966)

Thank you.

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Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes by OptiKey on Thursday September 10, 2015 @03:57PM (#10200207)

That's correct. I find they work better in darker environments. They struggle with direct sunlight as it contains lots of IR light.

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